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Throughout our college careers we have been con- nected spiritually with the Mother of God. In our fresh- man year His Holiness Pope Pius XII proclaimed the dogma of the Assumption, and consequently we ac- quired a portrait of Our Lady of Villanova” (at the right). We have also turned in our difficulties to the other Lady of our campus. Our Lady of Good Counsel, patroness of studies. Our devotion to Mary continued through our four years, and we did as Leo XIII advised—“Follow her counsel. We regarded it as significant that the procla- mation of the Marian Year should follow closely the official declaration of our status as a University. As we leave school for our new life, our devotion to Our Lady shall continue to strengthen us. From the Prayer To The Blessed Virgin Mary (Composed by Pope Pius XII—November 21, 1953) “Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast our- selves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus and our Mother, Mary, confident of finding in your most loving heart appeasement of our ardent desires and a safe harbor from the tempests which beset us on every side. “Though degraded by our faults and overwhelmed by infinite misery, we admire and praise the peerless rich- ness of the sublime gifts with which God has filled you above every other more creature from the first moment of your conception until the day whereon, after your assumption into Heaven, He crowned you Queen of the universe. “O crystal fountain of faith, bathe our minds with the eternal truths. “O conqueror of evil and death, inspire in us a deep horror of sin which makes the soul detestable to God and a slave of hell. “O well-beloved of God, hear the ardent cry which rises from every heart in this year Dedicated to You. “Receive, O sweet Mother, our humble supplications and, above all, obtain for us that one day, happy with you, we may repeat before your throne that hymn that today is sung on earth around your Altars: “You are all beautiful, O Mary. You are the glory, you are the joy, you are the honor of our people. Amen. MARIAN YEAR Our Cady of Villanova
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Site of a university “I see a flourishing University, which for a while had to struggle with fortune, but which when its first founders and servants were dead and gone, had successes far exceeding their anxieties.” John Henry Newman The Idea of a University AFTER 10 SUCCESSFUL YEARS as President, during which Villanova's enrollment more than doubled and the school was granted official recognition as a University, Rev. Francis X. N. McGuire, O.S.A., (inset) became head of the new $20,000,000 expansion program. 10
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